Retailer GameStop announced that it will be bringing back its fan event - the GameStop Expo - in September. For right around $40, attendees can get hands-on access to upcoming titles from the likes of Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Activision Blizzard, Warner Bros., Take-Two, and many other companies.

Many of the games that will be playable at the show will likely be revealed or highlighted during E3 later this month on Los Angeles. The seven hour event will feature over 80 booths in a 250,000 square foot show floor, according to GameStop's announcement today.

GamesBeat has an amusing story about a fellow who went to his local GameStop to ask about Rock Band 4, and was informed by a clerk that it did not exist. He was so upset about it that he expressed his frustration on the Rock Band Facebook page:

GameStop wants to raise half a million dollars for the Make-A-wish charity. The video games retailer announced on Monday that it wants to help raise $500,000. It will do its part by making it easier for GameStop shoppers to make donations both in-store and on its web site.

Video games retailer GameStop has announced an employee scholarship program that aims to give back a little for those improving their lives through higher education. The scholarship program is in partnership with Scholarship America and is an expansion of the Gamer Fund employee relief program. The program, officially called "Power to the Scholars," will award 40 scholarships of $2,500 to employees during the 2015/2016 school year.

According to this IGN report GameStop will soon accept older console systems as trade-ins for in-store credit or cash. According to the report, the country's top games retailer will launch pilot programs in its New York City and Birmingham markets. Those two market's represent around 250 retail stores.

GameStop.com had a bit of trouble today as people scrambled to pre-order the latest batch of Nintendo’s amiibo figures announced at Nintendo Direct yesterday. Now the pre-ordering option is off the table, according to GameStop, who issued a brief statement on its Facebook page. Nintendo is basically saying "it's not our problem" in this particular situation (and rightfully so, because it really has nothing to do with them).

A man who made a YouTube video (as first reported on by GameSpot) of his dumpster diving exploits at a local GameStop called the company cheap for not donating games and other game-related items to charity - instead opting to throw it out in the trash. The video has over half a million views, and managed to elicit a response from the country's largest video games retailer.

Unlike most U.S. retailers, the world's largest retailer of games will be closed on Thanksgiving in the United States. GameStop announced that it will shut down its stores in the United States next Thursday. CEO Paul Raines confirmed the news during a post-earnings call on Thursday.

"We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day next week in the United States out of respect for our associates and their families," he said. "Sometimes, we have to not let the pressure from other retailers distract us from our values."

Earlier this year GameStop introduced its own credit card - the PowerUp Reward Credit Card, allowing customers to buy various game-related items on credit and earning itself a tidy profit in the process because the card has an APR of 26.99 percent (ouch).

GII reports that GameStop will no longer be selling games in Spain. The company announced that it has sold off a majority of its retail stores in the region to UK-based retailer GAME Digital Plc. The stores that were not part of the deal will eventually be closed.

"Our strategic decision to exit the Spanish market was not taken lightly," said GameStop executive vice president Michael Mauler.

Video games retailer GameStop reported a 25 percent increase in total global sales compared to the same period a year ago. The company reported $1.73 billion for the second quarter of this year, a 25.1 percent increase over last year's Q2 number of $1.38 billion. Consolidated comparable store sales increased 21.9 percent and net earnings for Q2 came in at around $24.6 million, up 134.3 percent from $10.5 million in the same period last year.

Retailer GameStop announced that its CEO Paul Raines underwent unscheduled surgery last week to remove a small, cancerous tumor from his brain. The company revealed the news in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The surgery, removed the tumor from an "easily accessible" part of Raines' brain and was a success. Raines is expected to make a full recovery, according to GameStop.

Video games retailer GameStop is revamping its game trade-in program in a way that will ultimately put more money in consumers' pockets. According to a report on Kotaku (based on a leaked internal memo sent to employees), the new system will officially launch on Aug. 18 and will vastly simplify the retailer's current trade-in program.

GameStop CEO Paul Raines says that yesterday's news that the company wants to get more involved in the development process in order to bring exclusive content to the retailer may have been slightly misunderstood. The Raines interview with Time that comes on the heels of comments from a financial analyst with R.W. Baird who reported that GameStop management was discussing the possibility of ramping up the company's participation in game development during a recent investor meeting.

Since video game retailer have been offering the Xbox One without the Kinect motion sensing device, the system has been flying off store shelves, according to the retailer. Microsoft began offering the new SKU at retail outlets through North America this week.

During a conference call last night to discuss the latest quarter's results, games retailer GameStop said that it is seeing a greater interest in Xbox One since announcing the new Kinect-free SKU. Microsoft announced last week that it would roll out an Xbox One SKU that did not include the motion sensing camera technology and that it would be $100 cheaper at $399.

During the call last night, GameStop president Tony Bartel said the company is seeing "stronger demand" for the Xbox One since last week.

Video game retailer GameStop reported earnings for the quarter ended May 3, last night after the closing bell. The retailer posted $2 billion in revenue, up 7 percent compared to the $1.87 billion it made in the same period a year ago. The company reported a profit of $68 million, an increase of roughly 24.5 percent compared to last year's net earnings of $54.6 million.

Video games retailer GameStop will close between 120 to 130 of its 6,457 retail locations worldwide, the company announced. The move is part of a plan to focus more on mobile called "GameStop 3.0," according to what CEO Paul Raines said at GameStop's 2014 Investor Day yesterday. As part of that initiative GameStop will focus on Mobile and Apple-based devices by launching stand-alone chains like the AT&T-branded chain "Spring Mobile" and the Apple retailer "Simply Mac."

GameStop announced today that it has entered into a partnership with researchers from the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School and IBM.

IBM will provide the video games retailer with its BlueMix could platform, which will allow GameStop to "incorporate new mobile and cloud apps with previously existing systems, creating an enhanced atmosphere for customer interaction online and in-store."

GameStop reported sales of $3.68 billion for the forth-quarter of 2013, a 3.4 percent increase over the $3.56 billion the company reported in the same period a year ago. It comes as no surprise that the retailer attributed the increase in sales to the launches of Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One in November of last year.

A source close to the situation (who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to talk about the matter) has informed us that GameStop is in a battle at locations around the country that are in a general proximity to Walmart. Walmart launched its video game trade-in program today, offering consumers the ability to trade in their old video game software for in-store credit.

Financial analyst Edward S. Williams of BMO Capital Markets issued a report previewing GameStop's fourth quarter results, which will be released on Thursday, March 27, followed by a conference call with investors at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Williams predicts that the video games retailer will report strong hardware sales from the launches of the PS4 and Xbox One for Q4, but weaker software sales during this transitional console period. He also said that severe winter weather, which hit most of the United States in January, may have affected January sales—as well as April quarter sales.

According to this Polygon report, video games retailer GameStop is engaging in a little bit of price gouging. According to the report, the retailer has raised the price of the PS4 camera peripheral to $69.99. When Sony announced the peripheral back in 2013 it carried a suggested retail price of $59. Last month the device was listed at that price point, but recently the PS4 camera has been scarce or sold out at most major retailers in the United States.

Kongregate CEO and co-founder Jim Greer will step down to focus on a political career of sorts, the executive announced via a blog post on Kongregate.com. Kongregate co-founder and current COO Emily Greer will be taking over as CEO of the casual and indie games website owned by games retailer GameStop.

Update: Apparently a system error is being blamed for the disappearance of pre-orders for the Wii U version of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs at GameStop. A spokesperson for the retailer tells Kotaku that the error has been corrected and that pre-orders for the game will be available again soon.

GameStop said today that it generated $3.15 billion in total worldwide sales over the nine-week holiday shopping season of 2013. The numbers represent a 9.3 increase over the same period a year ago, which can be directly attributed to new consoles and new console software sales. In fact, GameStop said that hardware sales were up 99.8 percent over the same period a year ago. Go figure.

GameStop has partnered with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to raise at least $500,000 in charitable donations for the annual St. Jude Thanks and Giving campaign, which involves a number of companies and personalities including celebrities, media, retail and corporate brands. They all come together to ask consumers to donate while they shop during the holiday season and join St. Jude in finding cures for sick children.

If you don't already own a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 and don't mind buying a refurbished used console, then a sale announced by retailer GameStop might be of interest to you. GameStop is cutting the price of its refurbished PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles from October 11 - 24. No doubt it wants to unload some of its older inventory to make room for the next-generation Xbox One and PS4 launching in late November.

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Infophile: @Matt: Apparently Dan Aykroyd actually is involved. We don't know how yet, though, but he's apparently going to be in the movie in some way.08/02/2015 - 4:17am

Mattsworkname: I still hold that not having the origonal cast invovled in any way hurts this movie, and unless the 4 actresses in the lead roles can some how measure up to the comic timing of the origonal cast, i just don't see it being a success08/02/2015 - 12:46am

Mattsworkname: Mecha: regardless of what you think of it, GB 2 was a finanical success and for it time did well with audiances ,even if it wasnt as popular as the first08/02/2015 - 12:45am

MechaTama31: I think they're better off trying to do something different, than trying to be exactly the same and having every little difference held up as a shortcoming. Uncanny valley.08/01/2015 - 11:57pm

MechaTama31: Having the original cast didn't do much for... that pink-slimed atrocity which we must never speak of.08/01/2015 - 11:56pm

Mattsworkname: Andrew: If the new ghostbusters bombs, I cant help but feel it'll be cause it removed the origonal cast and changed the formula to much08/01/2015 - 8:31pm

Andrew Eisen: Not the best look but that appears to be a PKE meter hanging from McCarthy's belt.08/01/2015 - 7:34pm

Mattsworkname: You know what game is a lot of fun? rocket league. It' s a soccer game thats actually fun to play cause your A Freaking CAR!08/01/2015 - 7:02pm

Mattsworkname: Nomad colossus did a little video about it, showing the world and what can be explored in it's current form. It's worth a look, and he uses text for commentary as not to break the immerison08/01/2015 - 5:49pm

Mattsworkname: I feel some more mobility would have made it more interesting and I feel that a larger more diverse landscape with better graphiscs would help, but as a concept, it interests me08/01/2015 - 5:48pm

Andrew Eisen: Huh. I guess I'll have to check out a Let's Play to get a sense of the game.08/01/2015 - 5:47pm

Mattsworkname: It did, I found the idea of exploring a world at it's end, exploring the abandoned city of a disappeared alien race and the planets various knooks and crannies intriqued me.08/01/2015 - 5:46pm

Andrew Eisen: Did it appeal to you? If so, what did you find appealing?08/01/2015 - 5:43pm

Mattsworkname: Its an interesting concept, but it's not gonna appeal to everyone thats for sure,08/01/2015 - 5:40pm

Andrew Eisen: That sounds horrifically boring. Doesn't sound like an interesting use of its time dilation premise either. 08/01/2015 - 5:36pm

Mattsworkname: an observer , seeing this sorta frozen world and being able to explore without any restriction other then time. no enimes, no threats, just the chance to explore08/01/2015 - 5:34pm

Mattsworkname: Andrew: I meant lifeless planet, Time frame is an exploration game. Your dropped onto a world which is gonna be hit by a metor in 10 seconds, but due to time dilation ,you actually have ten minutes, so you can explore the world, in it's last moments, as08/01/2015 - 5:32pm